Adriaan
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Adriaan is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country. In Aruba it is the 10th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Ultimately from Latin Adrianus.
- NLNetherlands1 in 330(measured from records)
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 2.2K
- USUnited States1 in 842K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Sources
- 163 (measured from records)
- 1 in 330 (inferred from the name graph)
52,376 people
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Ultimately from Latin Adrianus.
Sources 1
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Adriaan counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | #353 | 52,376 | 1 in 330 | 52K | Adriaan | 142 |
| ZA South Africa | #210 | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | — | Adriaan | 84 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈640 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Adriaan | 78 |
| US United States | — | 395 | 1 in 842K | 364 | Adriaan | 163 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 250K | 2 | Adriaan | 69 |
| SE Sweden | — | 130 | 1 in 78K | 130 | — | 9 |
| AW Aruba | #10 | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Adriaan | 5 |
52,376 people counted by Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the de-duesseldorf-vornamen register; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Hadrianus VIb. 1459NLnot in their usual namepope of the Catholic Church from 1522 to 1523 (1459–1523)
- Adriaan Willaertb. 1480BEFranco-Flemish composer and founder of the Venetian School (1480–1562)
- Adriaan van Roomenb. 1561DEBelgian mathematician (1561–1615)
- Adriaan Metiusb. 1571NLDutch mathematician and astronomer (1571–1635)
- Gerard Adriaan Heinekenb. 1841NLfounder of beer company Heineken International (1841–1893)
- Adriaan Paulenb. 1902NLDutch athlete and president of the IAAF (1902-1985)
- Adriaan Blaauwb. 1914NLDutch astronomer (1914–2010)
- Adriaan de Grootb. 1914NLDutch chess player and psychologist (1914-2006)
- Adriaan van Wijngaardenb. 1916NLDutch computer scientist (1916-1987)
- Sven Botmanb. 2000NLnot in their usual nameDutch association football player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 37 sources across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 52K | #41 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 20K | #172 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 364 | #24,393 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 130 | #7,152 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 114 | #5,129 |
| NL Netherlands | SVB Kindernamen — annual newborn name frequency (Wayback-recovered) | 2017 | 37 | #414 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 34 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 32 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 31 | #24,393 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 31 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 31 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 30 | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Adriaan mean, and where does it come from?
- Ultimately from Latin Adrianus. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- Is Adriaan a male or female name?
- Adriaan is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Adriaan?
- In the etymology graph, Adrian, Adriano and Adrien are forms of the same name in other languages; Arie is a recorded short or pet form.
- In which country does Adriaan have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 52 thousand people named Adriaan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled adriaan.
- Where is Adriaan most common?
- Adriaan is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 330 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Adriaan?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 52,376 people named Adriaan, about 1 in 330 residents.
- How common is Adriaan compared with other names?
- In the Netherlands, Adriaan is the 353rd most common given name of 101,916 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Adriaan?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/adriaanThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Adriaan” — the 353rd most common given name in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.